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Description: | A copper-alloy object of early Anglo-Saxon date with Style II zoomorphic decoration.The object is flat and in the shape of a bird's head, with a straight edge at one end decorated with nine transverse grooves to make a ladder pattern.Transverse grooves separate this from the bird's eye, which is large and circular, and is itself formed from two smaller birds' heads and necks curving around each other in a circular formation. These smaller birds' heads have long, slightly downcurving open beaks and circular eyes. The object then narrows into a scrolled beak (indicating a predatory bird) decorated with two longitudinal grooves and terminating in a rounded end. The reverse is flat and undecorated and the object is 2mm thick.This object is probably a pressblech die, used to produce decorative repoussé foils, which often have this sort of dotted or pelleted border. The object is, however, perhaps rather thin for this purpose, and alternatively the object may be a piece of inlay, possibly for a box, or a plaque from a vessel. It dates to the 7th century AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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